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Opinion

Our view: Happy Snowdown

Game on, Durango. It’s SNOWtime! The 46th annual running of Snowdown, Durango’s midwinter festival, filled with fun and games (real ones this year), is off to another great start with a clev...

Our view: In darkness and light, choose the light

It’s been a roller coaster of a week for women’s and civil rights. Last Friday, in the ninth inning of his presidency, Joe Biden declared the Equal Rights Amendment law. “It’s the 28th Amend...

Our View: Trump pardons gross miscarriage of justice

Found guilty, pleaded so or charged, 1,600 individuals who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 are free, or will be within hours or days. For most, there was no doubt as to the extent of the...

Our View: President Joe Biden

A day before his final day in office, the world is considering Joe Biden’s performance as president. Historians might say that’s too close up, that six months from now that assessment will b...

Our View: Celebrating Duane A. Smith

Duane A. Smith radiated history, delivering his lectures in a full voice, always in motion. He drew his listeners into events that took place 150 years ago as though they were immediate, set...

Our View: Affordable health care for Southwest Colorado, deadline 11:59 p.m.

Health care has become a deadly business. Last month’s murder of Brian Thompson, UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, has become a symbol of the illness long plaguing America’s health care industry: The ...

Our View: Dry January. No, not that one.

Yes, it’s been dry. California’s fires have locals’ anxieties creeping in. We’ve been there. The 2002 Missionary Ridge Fire and 2018 416 and Burro Fire Complex fires were among the largest i...

Our view: 2025 from governor, CU Business School

The 33rd annual Southwest Economic Outlook took place Thursday at Fort Lewis College, the same day Gov. Jared Polis delivered his seventh State of the State address to lawmakers at the State...

Our view: Shine light on 9-R funding, not CORA

The Durango School District 9-R Board of Education has identified its state legislative priorities for 2025, the first two of which focus on sustaining K-12 funding (Herald, Jan 3.). A third...

Our view: James Earl Carter Jr., lessons from a man of peace, democracy and human rights

Much has been written about Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States who served from 1977 to 1981, and died at 100 on Dec. 29. People will tell you he was a decent, honest and e...

Our view: Significant issues to engage in 2025

We are four days into the new year, and have some thoughts about the shape and form of what could be in store locally for 2025. The year begins with Durango’s April election that could conti...

Our view: Events go, and come; calendar needed

We just said goodbye to another year and over a dozen of Durango’s best (Herald, Dec. 29). To that list, we must add the Hesperus Ski Area and the Four Corners Folk Festival, two iconic Sout...
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